above/ground
press author Marilyn Irwin has won the 2013 Diana Brebner Prize for her poem
“this is a silent”! Administered by Arc Poetry Magazine, this year's award was
judged by Sue Sinclair, and Irwin's prize-winning poem will be featured in Arc #71, due on newsstands any day now. As the press release states:
With
“its rich and unusual word combinations, this... complex short poem" was
selected for the best poem written by an emerging National Capital poet in
2013.
A graduate of
Algonquin College’s Creative Writing program, Marilyn Irwin has three chapbooks: for when you pick daisies (above/ground press, 2010), flicker (above/ground press, 2012), and little nothings (2012). Her work has
been published by above/ground press, Bywords,
ottawater, Peter F. Yacht Club, among others; and most recently, the Canadian section of New American Writing #31.
